President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.

Never assume the obvious is true.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

A great soul was always born from a great insistence.

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.

I think it's a great quality to the movie, Ondine, that it's so authentic, and it didn't go for a compromise, like speaking with clearing accent.

Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring.

People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.

The business of government is justice.

Endurance? You've only got to get out there and do it. Face up to it: man was meant to run.

Sometimes it's important just to allow myself to feel whatever it is I am feeling and to be okay with it.

Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.